Diseases

How they affect us

Disease are acquired by:

• Genetic causes – inherited from parents

• Microbes – infection from a virus, bacteria or fungus

• Parasites - catch an organism that causes disease condition – e.g. malaria

• Chicken pox

Shingles

shingles

Rubella

or

German measles

Mumps

Athletes foot

Cold sore

Herpes

Small pox – a killer

Small pox

Polio

Warts

Verruca

verruca

Ulcers

Ulcer

Bed ulcers - Ouch!!!!!!!

These are parasitic worms –

passes from the intestine

after treatment with drugs

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